"Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash" is a charming episode of The Flash that manages to advance the season's big story.
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The Flash Season 4 Episode 12
“Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash” didn’t have to be any good. I was a little worried when I saw the preview, và wondered how they were going lớn justify a “filler” episode right when the stakes need khổng lồ start getting higher for the show as we pass the halfway point.
So the fact that I wasn’t just wrong, but I was dead wrong was a thrill. While “Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash” is unlikely khổng lồ land on my “best of” lists for the year, it is excactly what you’d want from an episode with a premise like this. It’s almost constantly charming without ever being cloying or worse. It even advanced Barry’s prison story well beyond just “Barry is off the board because he’s in jail.” Hell, I’m just glad they gave us a good reason for why Ray Palmer couldn’t be involved in the episode.
Even though the last two episodes didn’t really thrill me, I vì chưng think that we’ve finally settled into what feels like the right balance between the joke-a-minute feel of the early episodes this season và one that feels appropriate for a show where the stakes now include the very real possibility that our title character will never see the outside of a jail cell again. Well, OK, we know he will, but I’m impressed that we’ve now gone two full episodes with no Barry-in-costume action, và it looks like we’re likely lớn go one more.
There was a real rhythm to this episode that I couldn’t put my finger on, though. Iris worrying about Barry và then cutting straight khổng lồ the thẻ game was genuinely hilarious, as was the contrast between the new mayor’s almost Daffy Duck-esque delivery of “I hate this city” & former Mayor Bellows in the clink with Barry and Big Sir. Lines like “you’re no less annoying at that size” và Harry’s clearly traumatized mô tả tìm kiếm of Gorilla thành phố prisons were right on point, too. It all felt effortless, which is a far cry from the word “forced” that I kept throwing around earlier this season.
Hell, even our virtually useless villain-of-the-week was fun, & worth it for his ridiculous “parachute out the window” escape alone.
My one real issue is this whole Cecile-has-powers thing. After that fun opening scene, that got old real fast, và it really feels like some lazy shorthand to give some depth to her relationship with Joe, considering all they’re going through during this stressful time. Honestly, I feel like it had the opposite effect.
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On the other hand, the warden’s willingness lớn turn Barry over to Amunet đen feels very much like we now have a light at the kết thúc of the tunnel for the whole Barry in prison thing. There’s no way this ends well for the warden, & it seems unlikely that they’re able lớn throw Barry back in a cell for any length of time after.
All this và a genuine happy ending for Big Sir. I’ll confess, that got to lớn me a little. I think it says more about Bill Goldberg’s screen presence and charisma than it does about how much we actually know about Big Sir, but I’ll take it. And the fact that Barry took a chance và did right by someone who did right by him (and his dad) và ended up paying a price for it feels a lot more authentic to me than his stubborn refusal lớn mount any kind of defense of himself in “Trial of the Flash.”
Flash Facts!
– Big Sir’s real name here is David p Ratchett, thankfully. In the comics, I shit you not, it is Doofus p Ratchett.
– I rather liked Sylbert Rundine, known as Dwarfstar in the comics. He was created by Gail Simone and John Byrne in the notoriously underrated All-New Atom comic series in 2006. Seriously, it’s a fun, breezy superhero read. But the Dwarfstar of the comics is a lot more dangerous than the guy we met tonight.
– Nice khổng lồ see former mayor Tony Bellows back. You may remember him from the original Flash TV series starring John Wesley Shipp. Tina McGee’s Mercury Labs makes an appearance as well, just khổng lồ tie things up a little neater.
– I will never not get crazy excited whenever we get to Kord Industries. I’m still hoping they give us Ted one of these days.
– Kinda funny that they used the “shrink and steal the whole building” gimmick the same day that the trailer for Marvel’s Ant-Man và the Wasp does the very same thing.
– Sketchy warden’s password was 1-0-5-2. The shows in general have been leaning less heavily on the 52 theme lately, but it’s still notable when it pops up.
I might not be around for next week’s review, so if that happens, you’ll be left in the capable gloved hands of one of the other Legends of Den of Geek, whether it’s Kayti Burt, Jim Dandy, or Delia Harrington remains to be seen. If you miss me that much, you can always find me on Twitter.
